The Moldovan Food Year

Specialised

Spring: Lent, then Easter, the first greens, lovage and sorrel, lambing. Summer: the cherry and apricot, the wheat harvest, the tomato and pepper glut, the first vine-leaf sarmale. Autumn: the grape harvest and the pressing, apples and plums, mushrooms in the Codri, zacuscă and murături going into jars, the cellar filling. Winter: the Nativity Fast, Ignat and the pig, Christmas, and a cellar that must last to spring.